Marbled cake / Bizcocho marmolado

Don’t you just love marbled cake? You get the best of both worlds: vanilla and chocolate. No need to choose, and that’s a good thing because I really cannot differ whether I’m more of a chocolate lover than a vanilla one… mmmm both flavours are fantastic, I could never get tired of them. Plus it it super duper easy to make, and it looks quite impressive, so you can always wow your friends with it. Yep, what’s not to love about it??
And if it is a healthified version which you don’t have to feel so guilty about eating, well, now that’s just too good to be true, but that’s what I have for you today: healthier marbled cake, and just as delicious as “the real thing”. And it simply goes perfect with a cold glass of milk or a cup of coffee. Fabulous for tea time… or any time, actually 😉
Enjoy!

Preheat oven to 240ºC. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. Set aside and beat sugar and butter in a different bowl until fluffy. Add eggs, mixing well after every addition. Now, add yogurt and mix until combined. Next, whisk in the dry ingredients.

Separate batter in tow different bowls. Add Irish Cream to one of them, and cocoa powder to the other one.

Pour enough of the vanilla batter to cover your baking pan. Spoon dollops of the chocolate batter and do not stir to mix. Add more vanilla batter, followed by more dollops of the chocolate one. Again, do not try to swirl them with a knife or something. Go on spooning batter, alternating between the two of them until you’re done.

Bake at 240ºC for 15 minutes, then, lower the temperature until it reaches 180ºC and bake for about 30 minutes more, until you see it’s done.

That was all, easy, right?? The only thing you must keep in mind while making this, is that you mustn’t try to swirl the batter. “Swirls” will create themselves. Chances are high that if you try to create the marble effect yourself, you’ll end up with a grey-ish batter that neither looks of chocolate, nor of vanilla… kind of gross, actually. Definitely not the beautiful marbled effect you’re looking for!

Yes! you can send it at consuelodetejeda@gmail.com, although I don’t think I can publish it until I go back to Spain at the end of July, because wifi doesn’t work where I’m living now…But do email it, I’m sure it will be fantastic